Recent Development Trend of Electronic Commerce Research: 2000 to 2016

The current study aims to identify the recent research trend of electronic commerce research and report theoretical background used in the electronic commerce research articles. By searching the five electronic commerce research journals, including Electronic Commerce Research, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) database in a seventeen years period between January 2000 and December 2016, we found 1,205 electronic commerce research articles. By analyzing these articles, the current study maps the trend and reveals the highly influence research article. The current study also reveals theories that used in the electronic commerce research articles. The results provide fundamental insights on the recent research of electronic commerce. Keywords: Bibliometric, Literature Review, Electronic Commerce, Social Science Citation Index, SSCI To cite this document: Yann-Jy Yang, Chih-Chien Wang, and Chien-Chang Chen, "Recent Development Trend of Electronic Commerce Research: 2000 to 2016", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 131-142, 2017. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.17824